Paul Roberts, best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic needs is failing dramatically. In this carefully researched, vividly recounted narrative, Roberts lays out the stark economic realities beneath modern food—and shows how our system for making, marketing, and moving what we eat is growing less and less compatible with the billions of consumers that system was built to serve.

Roberts presents clear, stark visions of the future and helps us prepare to make the decisions -- personal and global -- we must make to survive the demise of food production as we know it.

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"Everyone’s got to eat, and this spellbinding book
makes it clear why that may be a problem in the years
ahead. Paul Roberts, with his usual ability to analyze
mountains of data in clear and coherent ways, helps
provide a reasonable and powerful map of how we
got ourselves into this fix, and how we might yet get
ourselves out." — Bill McKibben